“Ab eo, quod nigram caudam habet abstine, terrestrium enim deorum est,” 

“Keep your hands from that which has a black tail, for it belongs to the gods of the earth”

“The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.” ~ Alberto Giacometti

“I don’t like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.” ~ Josef Koudelka

"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation." ~ Bridget Riley

“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky

“He who would study organic existence, First drives out the soul with rigid persistence; Then the parts in his hand he may hold and class, But the spiritual link is lost, alas! Encheiresin natures this Chemistry names, Nor knows how herself she banters and blames!”

"I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought." ~ Adolph Gottlieb

"In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color." ~ Sonia Delaunay

"I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing." ~ Sonia Delaunay